| September 3 Sunday |
| 18:00 Ice Breaking Event |
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| September 4 Monday |
| Introduction and "inspiring day" |
| 9:00 Opening and Welcome Ceremony |
| 10:15 Break |
| 10:45 IAU and astronomy for developments/education (Nadeem Oozeer, Saeed Jafari) |
| 11:30 Importance of radio astronomy (Jack Gallimore) |
| 12:15 Introduction to interferometry (George Bendo) |
| 13:00 Lunch break |
| 15:00 Introduction to VLA (Betsey Adams) |
| 15:20 Introduction to MeerKAT (Nadeem Oozeer, Ianja Roger) |
| 15:40 Introduction to ALMA (Aida Ahmadi, George Bendo) |
| 16:00 Introduction to Very Long Baseline Interferometers (Cristiana Spingola) |
| 16:30 Break |
| 16:45 Introduction to LOFAR/MWA |
| 17:00 Help with software installation |
| 18:00 End of the day |
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| September 5 Tuesday |
| Softwares and data archives |
| 9:00 Intro to AIPS and data structure (Jack Gallimore) |
| 9:30 Intro to CASA and data structure (Aida Ahmadi) |
| 10:00 Projects overview, assignments (Fatemeh Tabatabaei) |
| 11:00 Break |
| 11:30 VLA data archive (Betsey Adams) |
| 12:00 MeerKat data archive (Nadeem Oozeer, Ianja Roger) |
| 12:30 VLBI data archives (Cristiana Spingola, Jack Gallimore) |
| 13:00 Lunch break |
| 15:00 EHT data archive (Michael Janssen) |
| 15:30 ALMA data archive (Aida Ahmadi) |
| 16:00 Break |
| 16:45 Help with software and download of datasets |
| 18:00 End of the day |
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| September 6 Wednesday |
| Calibration + Continuum tutorial |
| 9:00 Basics of calibration (George Bendo) |
| 9:45 Basics of imaging and self-calibration (Cristiana Spingola) |
| 10:30 MeerKAT data reduction (Nadeem Oozeer) |
| 11:00 Break |
| 11:30 Low frequency arrays and public surveys (Giulia Macario) |
| 12:00 Science with radio continuum (mm to m, Nadeem Oozeer) |
| 12:30 MeerKAT tutorials |
| 13:00 Lunch break |
| 15:00 MeerKAT tutorials |
| 16:30 Break |
| 16:45 MeerKAT tutorials |
| 18:00 End of the day |
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| September 7 Thursday |
| HI lectures and tutorial |
| 9:00 Notes on flagging (Betsey Adams) |
| 9:30 Continuum subtraction: lecture + tutorial (Adams, Yildiz, Roger) |
| 11:00 Break |
| 11:30 Masking and cleaning: lecture + tutorial (Adams, Yildiz, Roger) |
| 13:00 Lunch break |
| 15:00 Science with HI (Mustafa Yildiz) |
| 15:30 Moment maps + SoFIA tutorials (Adams, Yildiz, Roger) |
| 16:30 Break |
| 16:45 Moment maps + SoFIA tutorials (Adams, Yildiz, Roger) |
| 18:00 End of the day |
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| September 8 Friday |
| Very long baseline interferometry |
| 9:00 VLBI and general differences with connected interferometers (Cristiana Spingola) |
| 9:30 VLBI Calibration differences (Jack Galimore) |
| 10:15 VLBI tutorial (Spingola, Gallimore, Janssen) |
| 11:00 Break |
| 11:30 VLBI tutorial (Spingola, Gallimore, Janssen) |
| 13:00 Lunch break |
| 15:00 Science with VLBI: Event Horizon Telescope (Michael Janssen) |
| 15:30 VLBI tutorial (Spingola, Gallimore, Janssen) |
| 16:30 Break |
| 16:45 VLBI tutorial (Spingola, Gallimore, Janssen) |
| 18:00 End of the day |
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| September 9 Saturday |
| Excursion to Cappadocia |
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| September 10 Sunday |
| A tour to City Kayseri |
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| September 11 Monday |
| ALMA lectures and tutorials |
| 9:00 Hands-on calibration of ALMA data (Rosita Paladino) |
| 11:00 Break |
| 11:30 Hands-on calibration of ALMA data (Rosita Paladino) |
| 13:00 Lunch break |
| 15:00 ALMA weblog review (George Bendo) |
| 15:30 Mining the ALMA science archive programmatically (Aida Ahmadi) |
| 16:00 Science talk: Photometry Results from the Bright Extragalactic ALMA Redshift Survey (BEARS) (George Bendo) |
| 16:30 Break |
| 16:45 CARTA tutorial (Paladino, Bendo, Ahmadi) |
| 18:00 End of the day |
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| September 12 Tuesday |
| EHT lecture and tutorial + projects |
| 9:00 EHT/mm-VLBI data reduction (Michael Janssen) |
| 10:00 EHT and calibration pipeline tutorial (Michael Janssen) |
| 11:00 Break |
| 11:30 EHT imaging tutorial (Michael Janssen) |
| 13:00 Lunch |
| 15:00 Science talk: AGNs with EHT (Violette Impellizzeri) |
| 15:30 Projects |
| 16:00 Break |
| 16:45 Projects |
| 18:00 End of the day |
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| September 13 Wednesday |
| ASKAP/radio astronomy in west & central Asia (hybrid) +projects |
| 9:00 ASKAP: design, pipeline, surveys, data access and science highlights (Baerbel Koribalski) |
| 10:15 Radio Astronomy in Iran: From ISM to stars, BHs, galaxies and their evolution (Tabatabaei) |
| 11:00 Break |
| 11:30 Iranian National Observatory (Reza Rezaei) |
| 11:50 DAG-Eastern Anatolia Observatory (Mustafa Yildiz) |
| 12:15 Astronomy in Arab World (Awni Moh’d khasawneh) |
| 13:00 Lunch break |
| 15:00 Projects |
| 16:30 Break |
| 16:45 Projects |
| 18:00 End of the day |
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| September 14 Thursday |
| Science talks + projects |
| 9:00 Radio Frequency Interference-RFI (Nadeem Oozeer) |
| 9:30 Probing Axions via Light Circular Polarization and Event Horizon Telescope (Soroush Shokri) |
| 9:45 Constraining The Kerr Paradigm Through Synchrotron Radiation (Masoumeh Ghasemi-Nodehi) |
| 10:00 TBD |
| 10:15 The environments of hyper-compact H II regions (Aruzhan Omar) |
| 10:30 Radio Recombination Lines As Free-Free Templates in The Galaxy Center (Farideh Mazoochi) |
| 10:45 A Detailed Study of Radio-IR Correlation in The Magellanic Clouds (MJ Shahhoseini) |
| 11:00 Break |
| 11:30 LOFAR LoTSS: Multi-Scale Study of Radio-IR Correlation in Nearby Galaxies (Parvin Howaida) |
| 11:45 Radio Spectral Energy Distribution of Star Forming Galaxies at z<1.5 (Hossein Hatamnia) |
| 12:00 Interstellar medium and star formation in NGC 1316 (Haleh Mesgari) |
| 12:15 Projects |
| 13:00 Lunch break |
| 15:00 Projects |
| 16:30 Break |
| 16:45 Projects |
| 18:00 End of the day |
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| September 15 Friday |
| Reports and closing |
| 9:00 Project presentations (Students) |
| 11:00 Break |
| 11:30 Closing remarks |
| 13:00 Lunch Break |
| 15:00 Workshop ends |